[optimalonpaper]

I started with R, but then switched to Python because all pipelines were already written in Python (web-scrapers, some data-processing scripts, REST APIs), so I just learned pandas and it's been fine, although I do think dplyr's syntax is great and I prefer it to pandas'.

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah, totally. I spend a lot more of my time writing Python for anything that isn't data exploration/analysis, for exactly that reason.

I still refuse to learn pandas enough to replace dplyr though, as it's just so painful to use the API compared to how easy this stuff is in R.